{"id":951,"date":"2013-06-30T15:09:10","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T15:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vicferguson.com\/?p=951"},"modified":"2013-09-03T05:24:22","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T05:24:22","slug":"show-me-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vicferguson.com\/?p=951","title":{"rendered":"Show Me the Way&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Two decades ago<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">As a Soldier I\u2019ve been<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To a place called Bosnia<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I witnessed things there that were obscene<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I go to that place in my mind every day<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Hoping the memories will soon go away<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I\u2019ve been many times since<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To face my fears<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Knowing one day I will stand<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Once more with pride<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In Sarajevo, moj grad<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and the ghosts of my past will one day subside<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Twenty years now since this July<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The 11<sup>th<\/sup> it started<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">When those from Srebrenica<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">From their loved ones were parted<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In the few days that followed<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">There took place a slaughter<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">That left one I loved<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A Fatherless Daughter<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For two decades now<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I have followed God\u2019s path<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My memories and pain I know cannot last<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Many times Lord now to you I have prayed<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So once more I ask you<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Please<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cShow Me the Way\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My inner strength now I must find<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To take control of my wandering mind.<\/p>\n<p><b>VF\u00a9Vic Ferguson 30.06.2013<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two decades ago As a Soldier I\u2019ve been To a place called Bosnia I witnessed things there that were obscene I go to that place in my mind every day Hoping the memories will soon go away I\u2019ve been many times since To face my fears Knowing one day I will stand Once more with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicferguson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicferguson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicferguson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicferguson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicferguson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vicferguson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":954,"href":"https:\/\/vicferguson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions\/954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicferguson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicferguson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicferguson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}